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Life

He was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge. After graduating in he held academic positions outside the United Kingdom: in Egypt, Japan, Thailand and notably in Singapore (from 1960). He at times attributed his lack of success in finding a post closer to home to writing for Scrutiny and his short association with F. R. Leavis; whose influence he mainly and early, but not entirely, rejected. The Royal Pump Rooms and Baths Royal Leamington Spa, usually shortened to Leamington Spa or Leamington (pronounced Lemington) is a spa town in central Warwickshire, in England. ... Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ... Full name Downing College Motto Quaerere Verum Seek the truth Named after Sir George Downing Previous names - Established 1800 Sister College Lincoln College Master Prof. ... Frank Raymond Leavis (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. ...

As a poet he was identified with the Movement. His 1955 anthology, Poets of the 1950's, served to delineate the group of British poets in question — albeit somewhat remotely and retrospectively, since he was abroad and it was not as prominent as the Robert Conquest collection New Lines of the following year. The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest. ... An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15, 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of his classic account of Stalins purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror. ... The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest. ...

Returning to London in 1970, he edited Encounter magazine, with Melvin J. Lasky, for two years. He subsequently worked in publishing. Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol. ... Melvin J. Lasky (1920-2004) was an American journalist, intellectual, and member of the Anti-Communist Left. ...

The "Enright Affair"

Enright gained some notoriety in Singapore after his inaugural lecture at the University of Singapore on 17 November 1960, titled "Robert Graves and the Decline of Modernism". His introductory remarks on the state of culture in Singapore were the subject of a Straits Times article "'Hands Off' Challenge to 'Culture Vultures'" the next day. Among other things, he had said that it was important for Singapore and Malaya to remain "culturally open", that culture was something to be left for the people to build up, and that for the government to institute "a sarong culture, complete with pantun competitions and so forth" was futile. Some quotes include: The National University of Singapores (Abbreviated NUS; Chinese: 新加坡国立大学; Abbreviated 国大) flagship Kent Ridge campus is located in the southwest of the Republic of Singapore at Kent Ridge, bounded by the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), Clementi Road, Buona Vista Road and Kent Ridge Park, with an area of approximately 1. ... The Straits Times is an English-language broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore. ...

Art does not begin in a test-tube, it does not take its origin in good sentiments and clean-shaven, upstanding young thoughts.

Leave the people free to make their own mistakes, to suffer and to discover. Authority must leave us to fight even that deadly battle over whether or not to enter a place of entertainment wherein lurks a juke-box, and whether or not to slip a coin into the machine.

The following day, Enright was summoned by the Ministry for Labour and Law regarding his foreigner work permit, and was handed a letter there by the Minister for Culture S. Rajaratnam, which had also been released to the press. This letter admonished Enright for "involv[ing] [himself] in political affairs which are the concern of local people", not "visitors, including mendicant professors", and said that the government "ha[s] no time for asinine sneers by passing aliens about the futility of 'sarong culture complete with pantun competitions' particularly when it comes from beatnik professors." There was also some criticism that Enright had been insensitive towards Malays and their so-called "sarong culture." Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980 to 1985 and a long time Minister and member of the cabinet from 1959 to 1988. ...

With some mediation from the Academic Staff Association of the university, it was agreed that to put the matter to rest, Enright would write a letter of apology and clarification, the government would reply, and both were to be printed in the newspapers. Although the affair was "essentially dead" after that, according to Enright, it would still be brought up periodicially in discussions of local culture and academic freedom.

Enright gives his account of the incident in his Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (pp. 124-151).

Timeline

• 11 March 1920: Born in Warwickshire
• 1947-50: Lecturer in English, University of Alexandria
• 1950-53: Organising Tutor, Extra-Mural Department, Birmingham University
• 1953-56: Visiting Professor, Konan University, Japan
• 1956-57: Visiting Lecturer, Free University of Berlin
• 1957-59: British Council Professor, Chulalongkorn University
• 1960-70: Professor of English, University of Singapore
• 1970-72: Co-Editor, Encounter
• 1974-82: Director, Chatto & Windus
• 1975-80: Honorary Professor of English, Warwick University
• 1981: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
• 1991: OBE
• 31 December 2002: Died in London

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Works

• A Commentary on Goethe's Faust (1949)
• The Laughing Hyena and Other Poems (1953)
• Poets of the 1950's (1955) editor, anthology
• Academic Year (1955) novel
• The World of Dew: Aspects of Living Japan (1955)
• Bread Rather than Blossoms (1956) poems
• The Year of the Monkey (1956) poems
• The Apothecary's Shop (1957) essays
• Heaven Knows Where (1957) novel
• The Poetry of Living Japan (1958) editor with Takamichi Ninomiya
• Insufficient Poppy (1960) novel
• Robert Graves and the Decline of Modernism (1960)
• Some Men Are Brothers (1960) poems
• Addictions (1962) poems
• English Critical Texts 16th Century to 20th Century (1963) editor with Ernst de Chickera
• The Old Adam (1965)
• Conspirators and Poets (1966) essays
• Selected Poems (1968)
• Unlawful Assembly (1968) poems
• Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969)
• Shakespeare And The Students (1970)
• In the Basilica of the Annunciation (1971) broadsheet poem
• Daughters of Earth (1972) poems
• Foreign Devils (1972) poems
• Man is an Onion: Reviews and Essays (1972)
• The Terrible Shears - Scenes from a Twenties Childhood (1973)
• Rhyme times rhyme (1974)
• A Choice of Milton's Verse (1975) editor
• Penguin Modern Poets 26 (1975) with Dannie Abse and Michael Longley
• Sad Ires (1975) poems
• The Joke Shop (1976) novel
• Paradise Illustrated (1978) poems
• Wild Ghost Chase (1978) novel
• A Faust Book (1979) poems
• Walking in the Harz Mountains, Faust Senses the Presence of God (1979) poem
• Beyond Land's End (1979) novel
• The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945 –1980 (1980) editor
• Collected Poems (1981)
• A Mania for Sentences: Essays on G. Grass, H. Boll, Frisch, Flaubert & Others (1983)
• Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism (1985) editor
• Instant Chronicles: A Life (1985)
• The Oxford Book of Death (1985) editor
• The Alluring Problem - An Essay on Irony (1986)
• Collected Poems 1987 (1987)
• Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television (1988)
• Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined (1989) editor
• The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets (1989) editor
• Oxford Book of Friendship (1991) editor with David Rawlinson
• Under the Circumstances : Poems and Prose (1991)
• The Way of The Cat (1992)
• Old Men and Comets (1993) poems
• The Oxford Book of the Supernatural (1994) editor
• Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book (1995)
• Collected Poems: 1948-1998 (1998)
• Telling Tales (1999)
• Play Resumed: A Journal
• Signs and Wonders: Selected Essays (2001)
• Injury Time (2002)

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Reference

• Jacqueline Simms, editor (1990). Life By Other Means. Essays on D. J. Enright